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Monthly Archives: May 2006
What On Earth!
It seems odd that such a highly developed civilization has not yet found a way to combat parasites. These pesky creatures build huge hives or nests which often block or slow down the orderly progress of the earthling. However, the … Continue reading
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Lloyd Bentsen R.I.P.
One perk of being Treasury Secretary is that you get your signature on every currency note printed. Beats the hell out of having some bureaucratic office building named after you. Ultimately Bentsen will be forever known for The Quote, but … Continue reading
Posted in The Current Situation
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Op-Art Enlightenment via album covers
Back when it was still fashionable to have band stickers on the back of your car I home-brewed up a Spectrum sticker using the back design of the “How You Satisfy Me” single. It’s a cool op-art design and later … Continue reading
El Bambi Cafe – Beaver, Utah
I took this photo on a family road trip in November 1976 when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Not surprisingly, even then I was obsessed with roadside culture. Who says you outgrow your childhood interests? Nice to … Continue reading
Space cadet
Good grief, I feel like I’ve discovered that some part of my brain has been miswired. I’ve owned this album since it was released and only now did I notice the connection between it and this
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Rock-A-Hoola: water park in stasis
Boing Boing posts about a run-down kiddie amusement park in Egypt and I was reminded about Rock-A-Hoola. Rock-A-Hoola is (was?) a mostly closed-but-not-quite-totally-abandoned water park out in the Mojave Desert in Newberry Springs, CA. The park has been kicking around … Continue reading
Posted in California, Esoteric Studies
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Dubai’s Roach-Kaiju Hotel
Is it just me, or does the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s “Trump Tower Dubai” look like the larval-stage of some monster insect? As soon as it gestates long enough, the Trump Roach/Mantis kaiju will emerge – ready to do … Continue reading
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The Coliseum Theater – A life in Flickr
KrazyDad posts about an airplane he took a picture of and commented on how soon after posting the picture, a commenter ID’ed the plane and posted links to another photo of the same plane after it had collided with another … Continue reading
Posted in Things On The Net
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Travellers Back On The Move
Heinz Stucke has been bicycling around the world continuously for the past 44 years. A couple of days ago his bicycle (with 335,500 miles on it) was stolen just as he arrived in the UK. Two days later it was … Continue reading
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PGP needs a Macintosh QA
OK folks, time for all of the complainers out there to take action. PGP Corporation is developing multi-platform security software to secure email, files, disks, and other media. This position will be responsible for testing the MAC OS X interface … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Crypto
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